All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Kyung-hwan (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to create 200,000 new jobs for youth by 2017

    SEOUL/SEJONG, July 27 (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to create 200,000 new jobs for the youth by 2017 while also working to permanently increase employment opportunities for young adults, the government said Monday. The country’s jobless rate...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • South Korean activists send anti-Pyonyang leaflets over the norther border. (NEWSis)
    S. Korean police ban activists from floating anti-N. Korean leaflets

    PAJU, July 27 (Yonhap) — Hundreds of police cordoned off an area near the border with North Korea Monday to prevent South Korean activists from floating leaflets critical of North Korea, police said. About 10 conservative activists...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • South Korea's President Park Geun-hye looks observes a minute of silence during a state funeral of the late Lee Kuan Yew, held at the University Cultural Center, Sunday, March 29, 2015, in Singapore. During a week of national mourning that began Monday after Lee's death at age 91, some 450,000 people queued for hours for a glimpse of Lee's coffin at Parliament House. A million people visited tribute sites at community centers across the island and leaders and dignitaries from more than two dozen countries attended the state funeral. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
    S. Korea urges N. Korea to stop insulting its president after latest row

    North Korea has called South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye a myriad of unflattering names including a “venomous snake” and a “malignant tumor” and the latest verbal attack seems to have warranted a public statement to defend the...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • The South Korean Special Olympics team enters the Opening Ceremony inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday. (Yonhap)
    Koreans enthusiastic at Special Olympics opening ceremony

    The Special Olympics World Games kicked off with a spectacle Saturday at the opening ceremony inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where 6,500 athletes and 2,000 staff from 165 countries joined in the celebration. Among those present...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • sydney seiler
    Iran deal indicates US flexibility on N. Korea: Seiler

    SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) — The United States is willing to show flexibility in nuclear talks with North Korea, if resumed, as demonstrated in a recent deal with Iran, a key Washington official on Pyongyang said Monday....

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • South Korea MERS Virus
    Aug. 2 formal end to MERS outbreak in S. Korea: Jeju governor

    BEIJING, July 24 (Yonhap) — The provincial governor of South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju, Won Hee-ryong, said Friday that he expects South Korea to declare a formal end to the outbreak of MERS around Aug....

    • Posted July 24, 2015
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  • In this March 10, 2015, injured U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert leaves after being discharged from Seoul's Severance Hospital in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean police said Friday that they had arrested a 33-year-old jobless man for allegedly making an online threat to kill the U.S. ambassador in Seoul. The man allegedly left an English message vowing to "kill" Mark Lippert with "nuclear poisoning" on the website of the White House on July 8, police said in a statement. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    S. Korea man arrested over alleged online death threat on US envoy

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police said Friday that they had arrested a 33-year-old jobless man for allegedly making an online threat to kill the U.S. ambassador in Seoul. The man allegedly left an English-language...

    • Posted July 24, 2015
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